Although it’s a Christmas trip up north from Kuching to Kota Kinabalu, the truth behind this trip was to meet with my gf’s family. I think that’s the idea my dad and I share, while my mom and my younger sister views it as a normal trip.
The basic idea of the trip was to travel from Kuching to Miri (1 night stop), then to Limbang (1 night stop), next to Kota Kinabalu (2 nights stop), drive back to Bintulu on Christmas Eve (1 night stop) and finally back to Kuching. So basically we’d be in Kuching on Christmas day, but things did not go as planned.
We set off on 21st December, a dark cold morning(6am). We = dad, mom, sister, her bf and me. It was a good day; not hot and not raining…. Just nice for our rides (Frontier and MYVI) to travel smoothly without pushing the engines to the limit. To cut cost, we packed sandwiches and fried mihun (easily saved RM30 worth of meal at any kopitiam along the way), and we did not stop at any kopitiam from Kuching to Miri. We basically stopped every 3-4 hours to stretch and give the engines some break. Travelling between 80-120 km/h, we finally reached the heart of Miri around 8.30pm. My Miri uncle waited for us at the old Miri bus terminal and escorted us to our budget hotel, Visa Inn. I’m not really in a good relation with my uncle due to my Curtin days and seeing him for 5 minutes only during our stay in Miri can give you the idea of how bad it is… hehehehe…
The next day, we went off as early at 6am because we wanted to avoid the queue at the Miri-Brunei border. Luckily we have the ASEAN Bridge and not the old ferry to cross the river; it was a lot worse back then.
(to be continued)
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